When I started this blog I intended to post at least once a week. And I have done so for quite a while. But the last few months have been very quiet… I have been on holiday twice, spend a lot of time on my caravan (blogpost coming) and had to completely re-install my Macbook [...]
Today I received an interesting email from Colin Heath… With the 486 flathead cylinderblock that I bought of him came a set of non standard waterdomes. Those could be used to convert these early cylinderblocks that had an aircooled head to a watercooled version. The domes looked pretty professional and we suspected the domes to [...]
Today was a big day in the rebuild of my Squirrel: the engine has finally returned home! I only had a quick look at it so far but it looks very promising! After about 4 months all parts of my Scott are in one place again. So I “only” have to put it together now… [...]
The moment has finally come… The Squirrel engine is ready! Or at least Richard has done his magic… of course I still have to finish it… The block is now on its way back to be reunited with the frame. Although it has not arrived yet, I would like to say a very big thank [...]
The whole mixture of parts that are used in my engine set me thinking. Thinking on the issue of port timing. With the the parts not at hand it was difficult to calculate the porttiming so I asked Richard to mock up the engine once more and measure the timing for me. I just wanted [...]
